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North Carolina’s flagship public university plans to remove the pedestal where a now-toppled Confederate statue once stood on a main campus quad, its chancellor said Monday.
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt also announced she will step down at the end of the school year. Folt’s surprise order to put the pedestal in

Military veterans face many challenges when returning to civilian life, including finding sustaining and fulfilling work and housing, and adapting to family life. Inmates who have recently been released from prison face many of the same challenges.
A new program from the N.C. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs aims to help inmates who are also

He was the reason that Martin Luther King Jr. first visited Durham. He was the first black man to be a federal prosecutor in the south after Reconstruction. And he has been the longest serving legislator in the N.C. General Assembly.
Now he’s retiring. And many say his absence will make a profound difference.
For that reason, Rep. Mickey Michaux is

DURHAM – The Eagles are soaring at N.C. Central University. That was the message Chancellor Johnson O. Akinleye shared at a coffee and chat between members of the media, the community and the chancellor on Nov. 1.
“It’s an exciting period for us,” Akinleye told the group gathered over coffee and a light breakfast in the

DURHAM – Incentives to attract and keep black teachers, especially men; provide test preparation for students who need it, not just the high achievers; and make school suspension a last resort are just a few of the things black parents and educators said they want to see in Durham Public Schools.
About 50 parents, along with 10 DPS personnel,